SP 9072 west has stopped for a red signal at Sandcut in order to let the Santa Fe 5351, which is pulling the hot 199 intermodal train, to run around it.

A Santa Fe 199 train has new EMDs and GEs for power as it negotiates reverse curves at Hercules, CA.

Leaning into a curve and seemingly right on top of us, clean and shiny GP60M No. 142 leads a Santa Fe 199 train at Bixler, CA ,about a mile west of Orwood in the San Joaquin Delta.

Hitting track speed as it accelerates past the Tosco Oill Refinery, Santa Fe 7400 West roars down the main line at Maltby toward the Coast Range. No. 7400 was one of three test-bed locomotives GE ... (more)

A hot 199 train negotiates a sweeping curve as it drops down through Christie, CA.

As shadows start to envelope the deeper reaches of Franklin Canyon, a super-hot 199 train roars uphill toward Glen Frazer. In the distance, Mount Diablo still basks in full summer sunshine. Before... (more)

Late in the day, ATSF B23-7 No. 6410 leads a 199 up the 1.0 percent grade of Vine Hill. At one time, Vine Hill was the name of a siding the railroad had at this location. The plentiful exhaust is ... (more)

A cupola caboose punctuates the end of the Santa Fe 199 train at Glen Frazer, CA. The train's power is already rumbling up the grade inside tunnel. In just a few short months, cabooses will be gon... (more)

Near sunset, a hot 199 train wends its way through Franklin Canyon at Christie, having just exited tunnel 3, the longest on the entire railroad. The cattle on the hillside above the train give it ... (more)

The monsoons have created large thunderstorms over eastern New Mexico as Santa Fe 5660 west leads the hot 199 intermodal train out of Willard and around the sweeping curve just west of town.

Santa Fe 5832 West, a hot 199 train, roars through a super-elevated curve at Glen Frazer as it fights a 1.0 percent grade. The high-priority pig train is moments away from entering tunnel 3, insid... (more)

Having been in revenue service for a little over a month, a clean B40-8W No. 526 leads a 199 train over the 4th crossing of Tehachapi Creek, just east of Woodford, CA. The train is on the western ... (more)

A hot Santa Fe 199 accelerates through Pittsburg as its lead unit rocks through the east switch of the siding there. Partly obscured in shadow is a GP30u that the railroad uses for locals based in... (more)

A hot Santa Fe 199 train crosses the salt swamp between Port Chicago and Avon, and passes the old but profitable Tosco Oil Refinery. Tosco was famous at this time for being one of the few refineri... (more)

At sunset in Martinez, CA, a couple of teenagers using the Santa Fe right of way to get home seem oblivious to the danger coming up fast behind them. The engineer of 7412 West, a 199 train, is lea... (more)